{"slug":"convergence-c25","verification":{"valid":false,"broken_at":0,"reason":"prev mismatch"},"count":5,"sources":[{"id":"england-2013","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/england-2013","title":"Jeremy England 2013 — Statistical Physics of Self-Replication","quote":"Driven systems adapt to dissipate energy. Purpose emerges from thermodynamics. No designer. No blueprint. Just physics tilting toward structure.","summary":"Quantitative thermodynamic bound showing self-replication operates near a hard lower bound; reintroduces directional pull into physics without teleology.","claim_ids":["c25-01","c25-02","c25-05"],"quality_score":0.95},{"id":"whitehead-1929","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/whitehead-1929","title":"Whitehead 1929 — Process and Reality","quote":"Every event aims at satisfaction. Aim is structure. Aim is not decoration.","summary":"Process philosophy positing that every actual occasion prehends every other and aims at satisfaction; fits quantum mechanics and relativity but makes no predictions.","claim_ids":["c25-01","c25-02","c25-03","c25-06"],"quality_score":0.85},{"id":"spinoza-1677","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/spinoza-1677","title":"Spinoza 1677 — Ethics","quote":"Each thing strives to persist in its being. The striving is not chosen. It is constitutive.","summary":"Conatus doctrine: each entity strives toward persistence as the universal order acting locally; metaphysical not mechanistic.","claim_ids":["c25-01"],"quality_score":0.8},{"id":"darwin-1859","type":"rival","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/darwin-1859","title":"Darwin 1859 — On the Origin of Species","quote":"Mutation proposes. Selection disposes. No goal. No end. Just statistics.","summary":"The rival frame: selection explains apparent purpose without residue; mechanism has a 100% replacement rate over 400 years.","claim_ids":["c25-03","c25-04","c25-06"],"quality_score":0.95},{"id":"prigogine-1977","type":"adjacent","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/prigogine-1977","title":"Prigogine 1977 — Dissipative Structures","quote":"Far-from-equilibrium systems export entropy to maintain order. The whirlpool persists because it drains.","summary":"Thermodynamic proof that dissipative structures ride entropy gradients; foundational to England's later quantitative bound.","claim_ids":["c25-05"],"quality_score":0.9}]}